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and it is described, and figured in the Catalogue of Fossil Eodentia 

 actually in print. 



Cette. — From the ossiferous breccia of Cette (Herault) Cuvier 

 mentions some scapulas — one of which is figured — of a small rabbit 

 ('lapin'), of which it is stated, however, that it could scarcely have 

 attained the dimensions of a guinea-pig. Cuvier remarks that very 

 possibly these scapulse may belong to the same species as the 

 mandibular rami of Gibraltar.^ This is my opinion also, and 

 I would add besides that two incomplete metatarsal bones from 

 the same breccia, mentioned and figured in the " Ossements 

 fossiles," ^ likewise belong to Prolagus. 



Ratonneau. — Continuing our journey eastwards, we next arrive 

 at the ossiferous breccia of the islet Ratonneau, opposite Marseilles, 

 from whence P. Gervais obtained three molars and a lower incisor of 

 a ' Zagomys.'^ Considering that in the same breccia was found 

 a species of Systrix, H. major, whose affinities are with Tertiary 

 porcupines,* we may fairly assume that the Lagomys teeth also 

 belong to the older type of the family, viz. Prolagus, rather than to 

 a member of the recent genus. 



(According to a statement in Almera & Bofill y Poch's paper, 

 above quoted,^ Messrs. Deperet & Deydier have found the 

 Prolagus corsicanus in a cave of the valley of the river Durance 

 (Vaucluse). Monsieur Marc Deydier, of Cucuron, however, kindly 

 informs me that this statement rests on a misunderstanding.) 

 {To he concluded in our next number.) 



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1 Oss. foss., vol. iv, p. 178, pi. xiv, fig. 26 (1823). 



2 Op. cit., vol. iv, p. 178, pi. xiv, fig. 27. 



3 P. Gervais, ia C. R. Paris, vol. xlix, p. 511 (1859). Id., Zool. Pal. Gren. 

 vol. i, p. 76 (1867-69). 



* P. Gervais, opp. citt. Ch. Deperet, "Les Animaux Pliocenes du Roussillon" : 

 loc. cit., pp. 43-47 (1890). Id., in Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, vol. xliv, p. 125, footnote 2. 

 5 Op. cit., p. 7. 



